Bourbaki

Proposition 8

Tag 0C8N, permanent. Cite it as [Bourbaki, Tag 0C8N].

General Topology, chapter IX, § 6. Polish spaces, Souslin spaces, Borel sets

Let XX be a metrizable space and let (An)(A_n) be a sequence of Souslin subspaces of XX. Then the union and the intersection of the AnA_n are Souslin spaces.

These subspaces are certainly metrizable. The existence of the canonical map of the sum of the AnA_n onto the subspace ⋃nAn\bigcup_n A_n of XX shows that the latter is a Souslin space; and ⋂nAn\bigcap_n A_n is Souslin by virtue of Propositions 5 and 7 and Lemma 1 of no. 1.

In general, even in a Polish space, the complement of a Souslin subspace is not necessarily Souslin (cf. Exercise 6); see, however, no. 6, Theorem 2, Corollary.

Bourbaki puts the proof directly after the statement, so what is above is the statement and its proof together.

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